Cork branding device



(No Model.)

A. R. WEISZ. CORK BRANDING DEVICE.

No. 408,557. Patented Aug. 6, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT RICHARD WEISZ, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO BUDDE & WESTER- MANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CORK-BRANDING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,557, dated. August 6, 1889.

Application filed January 31, 1839- Serial No. 298,208. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT RICHARD WEISZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cork-Branding Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to secure a simple device for cork-branding by which the branding operation canbe rapidly carried on, as set forth in the following specification and claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation, partly in section, of a cork-branding device. Fig. 2 is an end elevation, partly in section, of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section along the line a: 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is aview similar to Fig. 3, with parts in a diiferent position than in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a section along the'line y y, Fig. 3.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, the letter A indicates a base or support having a plate 13, the raised or embossed parts O of which represent let-* ters, figures, or numbers, such as the name of a bottler, a trade-mark, an address or other mark or designation. The plate B has a chamber D communicating wit-h a tube E, having a heater or 'gasburner F. By lighting the gas from the burner F the plate B will become heated. The degree of heat of the plate B can be regulated by the greater or less degree to which the burner F is inserted in the tube E.

A second plate G is mounted on arms I-I, projecting from the slide I, which slide can travel in suitable guides or ways on the base A. The plate G is movable on the arms II, and springs K tend to force the plate Gaway from the slide I, while stops L prevent the plate G from passing ofi the arms H. Stops M limit the movements of the slide I, and a handle N enables the slide I to be operated. The corks O are supplied to the device through a funnel or chute P. The plate G has a recessed portion or receiving-recess R.

The device operates as follows: When the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1, a cork O rests on the plate G. WVhen said plate is moved in the direction opposed to the arrow shown 'on said plate in Fig. 3 until the recess R comes under the chute P, as indicated in Fig. 4, a cork drops into said recess R and Tests on the support Q. When the plate G 110W moves in the direction of the arrow shown on said plate in Fig. 3, the cork O which before rested in the recess R passes out of said recess, and such cork as the plate G moves along is rotated between the plates G B. Said plates thus act as pressure-plates for the cork and the characters or designation on the hot pressure-plate I3 are branded onto the cork as said cork rotates along the plate B.

The plate 13 is shown held in place by a recessed support or tongue S, Fig. 5, and by a screw T, so that by looseningthe screw T one plate B can be readily removed and another plate secured to the chamber D.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

nation, with the pressure-plates, one of which is provided with a receiving-recess, of a funnel or chute for guiding a cork to said receiving-recess, and a heater for one of said plates, substantially as described.

4:. In a cork-branding machine, the combination, with two pressure-plates, one of which is yieldably connected to a slide I, ofa heater for one of said plates, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing 

